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well also ; and because rny information was the ground, 

 having spoken out of a few heads which I had gathered ; 

 (for I seldom do more) I set down, as soon as I came 

 home, cursorily, a frame of that I had said ; though I per 

 suade myself I spake it with more life. I have sent it to 

 Mr. Murray, sealed ; if your majesty have so much idle 

 time to look upon it, it may give some light of the day s 

 work : but I most humbly pray your majesty to pardon 

 the errors. God preserve you ever. 



Your majesty s most humble subject, 

 and devoted servant. 



A Letter to the King, concerning the New Company. 

 August 12, 1615. 



It may please your most excellent Majesty, 

 Your majesty, shall shortly receive the bill, for the in 

 corporation of the New Company ; together with a bill, for 

 the privy seal, being a dependancy thereof. For this 

 morning I subscribed and docketed them both. I think it 

 therefore now time, to represent to your majesty s high 

 wisdom that which I conceive, and have had long in mind, 

 concerning your majesty s service and honourable profit in 

 this business. 



This project, which hath proceeded from a worthy 

 service of the Lord Treasurer, I have from the beginning 

 constantly affected ; as may well appear by my sundry 

 labours from time to time in the same. For I hold it a 

 worthy character of your majesty s reign and times ; inso 

 much, as though your majesty might have at this time (as is 

 spoken) a great annual benefit for the quitting of it, yet I 

 shall never be the man that should wish your majesty to 

 deprive yourself of that beatitude; &quot; Beatius est dare, 

 quam accipere,&quot; in this cause ; but to sacrifice your profit, 

 (though as your majesty s state is it be precious to you) to 

 so great a good of your kingdom : although this project is 



